This enquiry-led activity focuses on students considering the possible evidence base, as well as knowing how to evaluate existing evidence intelligently. It starts with a humorous cartoon which is slowly-revealed and carefully analysed. Its value as evidence for the enquiry is then scrutinised. This sets the tone for students to set up their own line of enquiry.
Learning objectives
- Students are able to infer meaning from a cartoon and comment on the significance of the date.
- They are able to evaluate a political cartoon.
- They are able to suggest possible sources of evidence to be used when setting up their own enquiry.
- They analyse a range of possible sources of evidence in terms of usefulness.
Step 1
As a motivating starter students are shown a cartoon from 1830 showing a policeman talking to a water pump! Many of you may be familiar with it if you have used Colin
